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Reader Photo: Navigating a cloudy surface
Reader photo: Mary Piper captured this image of rowers navigating Emigrant Lake with clouds reflected on its surface in March.
July 24, 2022
Reader photo: Mary Piper captured this image of rowers navigating Emigrant Lake with clouds reflected on its surface in March.
Reader Photo: Helen Shilkinreinhold submitted this photo of Thomas Jefferson (Barry Kraft), who read the Declaration of Independence, and Abraham Lincoln (Bob Jackson Miner), who read the Gettysburg Address, on the Fourth of July in Lithia Park.
Victoria Leo: “In the past two months, I have been all over Eastern Europe, I have climbed in the Alps, I have snorkeled and sunned all over the South Pacific, from one sun-kissed island to another. How can I be so sure that, even though I am at extreme risk if I catch COVID-19, I will be completely safe as I continue this joyous lifestyle?”
An excessive heat warning will be in effect from 1 p.m. Monday, July 25, through 11 p.m. Saturday, July 30, in areas of Southern Oregon and Northern California, including Ashland, Medford, Grants Pass and Yreka. Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures between 105 and 110 are expected.
Reports of aggressive behavior by deer in Ashland and other areas of Jackson and Josephine counties are on the rise, according to the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW). Ashland problem areas are reported between North Mountain Avenue and Oak Street north of Siskiyou Boulevard, and the area immediately surrounding Southern Oregon University.
Voters in Ashland will be able to expand allowable uses of funds raised via the city’s 5% food and beverage tax, which will be sent to the November ballot following Tuesday night’s Ashland City Council meeting. The tax, under the referendum, would last through at least 2040. It’s currently set to expire in 2030.
Herbert Rothschild: “Undoubtedly, many female athletes can outperform many males, but at any given level of proficiency males have a physiological advantage. It was the institution of women’s sports teams and leagues that offered women equal opportunity to gain the benefits of playing organized sports.”
Tesla wants to add Ashland to its list of Supercharger locations with a proposed 24-unit facility off Exit 14. The electric car giant has requested a variance to build a charging station on an undeveloped half-acre lot at 580 Clover Lane, next to Caldera Brewery & Restaurant.
Several plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival have been canceled this week because of breakthrough COVID-19 cases and exposures. Jackson County is currently experiencing a high level of community transmission of the coronavirus, according to the CDC, which recommends people wear a mask indoors in public.
The city of Ashland has put out the welcome mat for psilocybin treatment within city limits, following the lead of 80% of Ashland voters who voted in favor of Measure 109 on the 2020 ballot.
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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